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Sugar Alcohols Sugar alcohols are usually incompletely absorbed into the blood stream from the small intestines which generally results in a smaller change in blood glucose than "regular" sugar (sucrose). This property makes them popular sweeteners among diabetics and people on low-carbohydrate...

Bottle of Deuchars. Whisk in just enough flour to make it slightly sticky. Dip in whatever takes your fancy - tonight its squid and salmon with small Chinese aubergines courgettes this house. Pak Choi and a few steamed carrots on the side. Drain of the excess and deep fry - in this house...

Relax. Give up/avoid obsessive testing. Unless you consume one food at a time there can be no guarantee as to what sends sugar levels up and what does not. I have an Italian Godmother and used to eat pasta with good quality olive oil and black pepper. The olive oil and pepper have no impact...

Don't go into a shop without a 'list'. Buy daily what you need, rather than weekly on the basis of what you might want to eat. Alternatively, plan a weeks menus on the basis that yesterdays not used or leftovers can carry forward into tomorrows meal. Its easy.

Don't put it off. Go to the doc now!!

I now eat very little bread, about one slice per day. Unsalted butter thickly spread or a good quality olive oil in a bowl to use as a dip or a good quality balsamic vinegar to treat in the same manner. Handful of olives or some picked gherkins/dill cucumber as an accompanying side dish.

Small blood sample. Its no longer the old fashioned finger up the ...... to feel for enlargement.

If you are piddling so often through the night it would be worthwhile getting the Prostrate tested.